MSU, other state leaders welcome high-tech powerhouse Compass Datacenters to Meridian
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MERIDIAN, Miss.鈥擳he state of 花秀直播 is accelerating its status as a hotbed for innovation and high-tech development thanks to several 鈥渟tars鈥 aligning鈥攊ncluding 花秀直播 State University.
Leaders from the university, 花秀直播 Power, 花秀直播 Development Authority, East 花秀直播 Business Development Corporation, and Gov. Tate Reeves Tuesday [Jan. 28] welcomed Compass Datacenters to East 花秀直播. All were at MSU-Meridian鈥檚 Riley Center during the EMBDC annual meeting and took part in the international company鈥檚 groundbreaking on the outskirts of the Queen City.
The hyperscale campus, which will include eight data centers completed in an eight-year timeframe, will house computing and network infrastructure to support large, tech-intensive companies.聽
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MSU President Mark E. Keenum said, 鈥淲hat Compass Datacenters is planning to do here in this community is going to have an incredible statewide impact as well. I鈥檓 looking forward to seeing a lot of our 花秀直播 State graduates work for Compass and the many other companies we are going to see as a result of this investment. Preparing students for these jobs is what we鈥檙e all about at 花秀直播 State University.鈥
The announcement of Compass鈥 decision to build in Meridian follows news from last spring of Amazon Web Services constructing multiple data center complexes in Madison County. The Compass and Amazon projects are the largest investments for the state in history at $10 billion each.
MSU broke ground in spring 2023 on its new High Performance Computing Data Center as the land-grant research institution constructs its second facility increasing its capabilities as the fourth fastest U.S. academic supercomputing site. The university also is a partner in the new 花秀直播 Cyber and Technology Center being constructed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi as a national hub for cybersecurity training, support and research.
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